Jennifer Gan

Research Faculty Instructor

University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences

faculty

8 h-index 58 pubs 370 cited

Research Areas

Health Literacy and Information Accessibility Healthcare Policy and Management Behavioral Health and Interventions Health and Medical Research Impacts Primary Care and Health Outcomes Technology Adoption and User Behaviour

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Jennifer Gan's research focuses on improving the clarity and accessibility of health information, particularly for patients navigating informed consent processes. She has investigated methods to enhance the readability of written informed consent forms, including the development and evaluation of tools like the "informed consent form navigator." This work aims to ensure patients can better understand complex medical information, contributing to more informed decision-making.

Her research also extends to health literacy interventions. Gan has examined the effectiveness of such interventions in improving health outcomes, specifically in the context of diabetes management within rural family medicine settings. Her work has been published in peer-reviewed journals, and she has a publication record of 58 articles with an h-index of 8 and over 370 citations. Gan collaborates with several researchers at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, including Aaron S. Kemp, Jonathan P. Bona, Alison Caballero, and Mathias Brochhausen.

Metrics

  • h-index: 8
  • Publications: 58
  • Citations: 370

Selected Publications

  • Effectiveness of a health literacy intervention to improve diabetes outcomes in rural family medicine clinics: a randomized pragmatic trial (2024) DOI
  • 235 Use of Community Review Boards to Evaluate the Utility of the ICF Navigator - A Browser-based Tool to Create Plain-Language Informed Consent Forms (2023) DOI
  • Analysis of Caregiver Burden Expressed in Social Media Discussions (2023) DOI
  • The informed consent form navigator: a tool for producing readable and compliant consent documents (2022) DOI
  • Institutional improvements in readability of written informed consent forms sustained post-revised Common Rule (2021) DOI

Collaborators

Researchers in the database who share publications

Aaron S. Kemp University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences 3 shared publications Jonathan P. Bona University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences 3 shared publications Alison Caballero University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences 3 shared publications Mathias Brochhausen University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences 2 shared publications Joseph Utecht University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences 2 shared publications Kristie Hadden University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences 1 shared publication Catherine C. Shoults University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences 1 shared publication Linda Larson‐Prior University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences 1 shared publication

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